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The Indian cultural Left is in India, but not of India
Razib Khan argues that Arundhati Roy should be understood as part of a global English-speaking cultural Left, not as typical of India or the Islamic world, where Left politics persists…
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The maritime origins of the Munda
Razib Khan finds the Munda Maritime Hypothesis highly likely: Munda languages arose on India’s east coast after Austroasiatic speakers crossed the Bay of Bengal from Southeast Asia 3,500 to 4,000…
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Browncast Episode 67, Conversation with freelance academic Justin Murphy
BrownCast episode 67: the hosts talk to Justin Murphy, a very online ‘post-academic’ and former UK political scientist now back in the USA, about working outside an institution, his return…
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Last Will of Guru Gobind and Emperor Aurangzeb
Reposts from a blog the Zafarnama, Guru Gobind Singh’s Persian letter to Aurangzeb, alongside Aurangzeb’s last will, with comments on the contrast between the two, and links to the original…
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The Origins of the Neolithic in the Indian subcontinent
The author argues that the Rakhigarhi and Genomic Formation papers show Iranian-related ancestry in the Indus civilisation separated before Iranian farming began, so farming reached South Asia without a large…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open Thread for 15 September 2019; no topic set, a general space for readers to talk about whatever they like.
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Pigmentation SNPs by population
A technical note on using plink’s clustering and frequency feature to get pigmentation SNP minor allele frequencies in 1000 Genomes plus Sintashta samples, with a caution that frequencies may need…
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The Sintashta were swarthy
Razib Khan checks Sintashta pigmentation loci and finds they were much darker complected than modern northern Europeans, probably closer to Sardinians, which helps explain why many North Indians with steppe…
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Browncast Episode 66, ancient India and DNA with Vagheesh Narasimhan
A Brown Pundits podcast episode interviewing Vagheesh Narasimhan, lead author of the 2019 ancient DNA papers on South and Central Asia, about ancient India, with links to the papers, related…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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